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Satish Serial Publishing House Dryland Agriculture and Watershed Management by Kaur Kawaljeet Subhash Chand Dheer Pratap & Akash Bhargaw
The book “Dryland Agriculture and Watershed Management” is written in simple English for better understanding about Dryland agriculture, Dryland farming and watershed management practices to undergraduate and post-graduate students of agriculture sciences. The basic objective of the book is to clear doubts about dryland and dry farming agriculture. The book gives a summarised knowledge about his two history, development and various practices to control soil erosion and drought. The whole handy book is divided into 9 chapters. chapter 1. describes about primary introduction of dryland agriculture. chapter 2. describes soil and water conservation techniques, whereas chapter 3. describes drought. chapter 4. describes strategies for mitigation of drought. Chapter 5 & 6 written to understand water harvesting and management. chapter 7. describes about contigent crop planning for aberrant weather conditions. A special chapter on Land policy (chapter 8) reviews the present and future land policy and different programmes, measures taken by Goverment to combat drought. The book is handy and written to satisfy the competitive aspirant opinion for various competitive exams and theory aspects. Authors hope that book will be extremely important for agronomists, soil scientist, crop scientist, post-graduate, graduate students of agriculture and allied subjects. It is also important for colleges, universities, institutions/libraries.